The irony in this is absolutely hilarious. I remember we were all praising the city for having such forethought and for doing their due diligence (unlike most of these cases) and keeping backups of their data.
I've seen many PC-raid hardware solutions that simply didn't work. A drive fails, and the machine becomes unusable, fail to recover when a good drive is inserted, or crashes/hangs and the data is lost.
Yet people keep buying raid solutions for PCs. I recommend: pull a drive from your raid hardware and see what happens. If you're afraid to do that, then you need a different solution.
If you don't have the same confidence in your systems you need to fix that.
The next morning he got a fedex from netapp... a replacement drive.
I once took over management of a startup that was just acquired (this was back in 1999). The people there never did backups. Ever. They told me with a straight face: "We have a RAID. It doesn't need to be backed up."
it's somewhat attractive price wise simply because it's a very affordable urban east coast city. there's a vibrant/edgy art scene (to include drama, etc.) that's attractive to younger artists, sort of like what detroit is going through (as i understand it)
https://statescoop.com/4th-cio-leaves-baltimore-within-five-...
It is a corrupt town the facts/history clearly show this. It's where I was grew up/live/work; all within in surrounding counties, which is solid living! Though Baltimore isn't the only corrupt US city!
CIO for an acutely underfunded department in large but very poor city is not an easy job.
Try as I might, I would never be able to come up with something like this, even if you held a gun to my head. There surely must be a small industry of HR consultants who specialize in writing this kind of drivel
Taking a career-ending bullet like this is Part of what these c-level people sign up for, an occupational hazard, especially In Baltimore
It could have been some trigger-happy accountant just tallying up stuff left and right.
Some organizations need a disaster to provoke change. Hopefully, they'll do the right thing now and transition to something that works.